After making the first big splash of the summer acquiring the rights to Ilya Bryzgalov and then later signing him to a nine-year, $51 million deal, the Philadelphia Flyers finally had their day in front of the media to introduce Bryzgalov to an eager audience.

Bryzgalov spoke with reporters today after showing off his new #30 sweater as well as his new Philadelphia-centric goalie mask and talked about how he hopes to be the guy to help the Flyers come away big winners this season and in the future.

“I never put the pressure on myself,” he said. “I know my job and I know what I have to do.

“Sorry guys, it’s from you [the media], you put the pressure on us and create the pressure around the team, but it depends how you can handle this.

“I think I can handle it. I know what I have to do. I know when I play bad and what I have to do to fix it.”

Good thing Bryzgalov says he knows how to fix it as he’ll have nearly 20,000 wannabe coaches telling him how to do it on a nightly basis at Wells Fargo Center should he struggle with things. As for playing for the Flyers, Bryzgalov knows that winning is expected in Philly and he knows he’ll have a team in front of him that knows how to do it for the most part.

“I have been in the league like seven or eight years and every year I see that team always had good players in the roster and they always played in the playoffs except one year,” said Bryzgalov. “Two years ago the team reached the final.

“It’s a team with a rich history. The team always puts in front of them the highest goal, to win the Stanley Cup.”

What Bryzgalov will have to do is to make life easier on the Flyers defense and while Holmgren said that Chris Pronger is looking like he’ll be ready to go by the start of the season, the rest of the Flyers defensive unit would love having a goalie behind them that can take care of them when they make mistakes. Older players like Pronger, Kimmo Timonen, and Andreas Lilja will enjoy not having to sweat things out too badly while younger veterans like Matt Carle, Braydon Coburn, and Andrej Meszaros balance out the rest. It’s not as if the Flyers are hurting for talent there, but in goal they needed stability and that’s just what Bryzgalov should provide them.

Some negative fans will point towards what Bryzgalov did in last year’s playoffs against Detroit and say that’s a sign of things to come for the Flyers but Bryzgalov had to virtually carry the Coyotes into the playoffs by himself playing almost every game from late January until the end of the season. With Sergei Bobrovsky there to back him up in Philly, coach Peter Laviolette won’t likely want nor need to ride Bryzgalov as hard as Dave Tippett had to in Phoenix last year. It’s a bit of a wealth of riches for the Flyers which only leads their fans to think big about the upcoming season.

Minnesota Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk has been the most difficult goalies to score against this season. Leave it to a high-level player like Leon Draisaitl to make it look this, well, “easy.”

Draisaitl scored his 13th goal of 2016-17 by capping this pretty give-and-go play with Benoit Pouliot. You can see the frustration from Dubnyk at the end of the tally, as if he was saying “How was I supposed to stop that?” (though probably with more colorful language).

Draisaitl came into Friday with five goals and three assists in his last five games, so he’s been almost unstoppable lately.